User blog comment:JoePlay/Anonymous Sweeps/@comment-68.125.143.65-20111015222717

The image of Jesus. Now, before I get stormed or raged at, I don't mean the actually Jesus, I mean the way he had been portrayed physically throughout the years in painting, literature, etc. Jesus is often portrayed with long hair, a neat beard while being rather light skinned and thin. This is strange considering that in the time Jesus was alive, long hair on men was looked down upon. Its also odd that he is light-skinned and thin, he was in the sun often so he should be tanned at the least and he was also a carpenter so he should be much more muscular than he is portrayed as. Now, from my research, it is very likely that the widely accept image of Jesus is actually that of Cesare Borgia, possibly one of the worst men in history. Cesare's father was Rodrigo Borgia AKA Pope Alexander VI. Often times when a Pope commissioned artwork, which was usually Biblical based, they would have the painter create the famous characters in the piece with the likeness of their children, relatives and/or lovers, so it's very likely that Jesus in these paintings was given the likeness of Cesare.